you know what.

i
think
i might
just
do
this.

and i have taken
my first class
in community school
crochet...
it was,
um...
interesting...
as the elderly grandmother type instructor
with the heavy accent
physically pushed and pulled at my
useless
hands poking the unwieldly crochet hook
this way and that
saying "no...too loose! no....go through 2 holes,
2 holes! now three! now three!"

and the look of shock on the faces of the
instructor and the one other woman besides
me braving the crochet class
when i said i had two children aged 7 and 11...

staring at me open mouthed momentarily
and then the instructor saying
"no. no. you look high school. you look too
young"
and the other woman saying she thought
i was 17.

a sweet nice compliment which i love
but no...i didn't start having babies
at six....

oh...and how 'bout a delurking?
huh? how 'bout it? you feel like it?
go on, leave a comment,
it would make me smile...
:)

because i only have a minute...

welcome to my
try to do 2007
list...

quilt.
make an apron.
learn to crochet.
prepare for next christmas. (heh. heh.)
knit mittens.
and knit socks.
make dollhouse and accessories.
fimo christmas ornaments.
paper mache.
to cook more.
make a cake from scratch.
watch all episodes of carnivale.
all episodes of house.
embroidery.
make a sock monkey.

to be continued.....

heh...how could i NOT blog this.

seven likes video games...
and tools...and taking things apart...
and putting things together.

he came in our room the other night
with a little toy drill
and some scheme in mind
of making some kind of video game
which would be cool, he said,
because then he would have his
own virtual screwing game.

heh.

he has also been singing
(very earnestly, i might add)
the first part of my chemical romance's
welcome to the black parade...
it melts my heart every time.

his second favorite song...
pain by three days grace.

that's my boy.

there is a great new virtual hang-out
called create a connection
that offers prompts and ideas and support...
by some of my favorite bloggers!
it is hosted by melba
and you should totally check it out!

deb r from red shoes rambling is a guest blogger
for wednesdays
and she offered this prompt for "getting to know you"
so here goes:

1. I have never wanted to _hunt_ ; but I've always thought I might like to __rock climb_.

2. When I was _15_years old, I believed _in santa_ .

3. If I was my own best friend, what I would enjoy the most about spending time with Me would be __that i can be interesting__; while what I'd find the most irritating would be that i have
a tendency to be anti social .

4. If the story of my life up to this point was being published tomorrow, it would be titled "_inside out and upside down" and it would be dedicated to _my husband .

5. When my time on Earth is over, and the people who loved me are remembering me, it would please me if they said _they genuinely missed me, that i touched their life in some way .


wow.
i have to say,
that was a lot harder than i expected it to be...
i think i should have waited until i had been
awake a little bit longer
before attempting that...

now go create a connection!

so.

christmas is over,
the tree is down and out.
new year's eve is a past event.

i don't know what is wrong with me,
why i feel this way,
so quiet
and sad
even...

i don't feel the urge to type
or put pen on paper.

post holiday blues?
coupled with PMS?

i'll wait for it to pass.